— I sat down with Renee Phoenix, Margo Reasner, and Ingrid Pomeroy, the featured artists from Issues 103, 105, and 106 of Living the Photo Artistic Life . . .

And boy was it fun!

We did run into two challenges, however. First, we couldn’t get Ingrid’s audio to work, so I had to conduct a separate session just with her afterward and then work to edit that in with the original. Second, the video didn’t end up working at all. (Ugh.) It was all green. So rather than subject you to that, I simply made this first get-together all audio.

The session turned out really cool in the end. I hope you enjoy it!

Prefer to listen to this on DropBox? I’ve set it up there as well. Click here for that …

While editing the audio I made notes of all the key points in the timeline. So if that sort of thing interests you, here’s how it plays out with time stamps:

01:02 Q: “What sparked you to move from photography into photo artistry?”
A . . . 01:12 Renee
A . . . 03:02 Sebastian
A . . . 04:07 Margo
A . . . 05:55 Ingrid
06:56 Remembering Somerset Digital Studio Magazine
09:12 Q: “What was it that inspired you to take your digital artistry to another level?”
A . . . 09:33 Margo
A . . . 10:19 Renee
12:08 The inspiring role of having the magazine coming out every month
13:28 Q: “Do you see yourself continuing to give attention to your own photography, or are you mostly now just living in Photoshop?”
A . . . 14:36 Renee
A . . . 15:45 Margo
A . . . 17:31 Ingrid
19:10 A bit about using Midjourney to create images vs. staging your own shoots
20:54 Renee continues on this theme
21:51 Sebastian carries the idea further
22:38 Keeping our creative photography habits honed (even if just on your iPhone)
23:12 Q: “Have you done much printing of your work or done anything to get it off the screen and into the physical world?”
A . . . 23:20 Margo
A . . . 24:01 Renee
A . . . 25:06 Sebastian
A . . . 25:26 Ingrid
27:11 Combining mixed-media with prints
29:39 Q: “What could you do, going forward, that would step up your artistic life?”
A . . . 30:01 Margo
A . . . 31:40 Renee
A . . . 34:04 Sebastian / Ingrid (Mixer Brush)
37:51 Q: “What does your general approach to creating art look like?”
A . . . 38:22 Margo
(+ at 42:00 keeping an idea journal)
A . . . 42:38 Renee
46:55 Q: “If you could give some advice to other aspiring photo artists?”
A . . . 47:01 Margo
(+ at 47:38 most common advice from Sebastian)
A . . . 48:22 Renee
(+ at 49:37 expanding your repertoire and comfort with your tools)
50:44 Q: “What does living the photo artistic life come to mean to you?”
A . . . 51:05 Ingrid
(+ at 53:13 remembering Billa Bozem …)

Hope you enjoy the conversation we had!

~ Sebastian